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One to watch: Heartworms
British singer Jojo Orme, support act for St Vincent and more, may have cornered the market in gothic noir informed by a keen interest in the first world war
The Venn diagram overlap of hotly tipped post-punk singer and military history aficionado might be an unusual meeting point, but for Heartworms it makes complete sense. Icy and unsettling, hers is a strand of gothic noir imbued with the traumas and horrors of conflict: both literal (motorik recent single Warplane was inspired by the death of Spitfire pilot William Gibson Gordon) and within herself. Produced by Speedy Wunderground’s Dan Carey (Fontaines DC, Wet Leg), it makes winning traits of claustrophobia and discomfort, whether on the spiky industrial dance of Jacked or the strange, glitching beauty of Extraordinary Wings.
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